I never thought I would be so nervous about this game. Absolute must win, no excuses. I fear if the worst happens and we blow this one, it could be like the London game in the Anderson era after the game. After this, I can't see us getting any more points.

You'll win comfortably.

Easy for you to say sitting pretty at the top of the league. You’ve not endured the we’ve had to put up with all year.

We will win mate be it by a dog in the 79th minute or by quite a margin and I'm confident of the latter..

I hope the players play with some (new found) confidence but not perhaps the over confidence of your post. I'm erring on the former and hoping that it's not Russell sliding over in the corner on the 79th to prove us both wrong

This is going to be avid viewing. Even if it's like two bald men battling over a comb.

Who cares? Meh. The last 5 years have seen the love and enthusiasm knocked out of me. Season tickets every year without fail since 1991 but obviously I’m no longer a #ProperFan

I haven't owned a comb for 25 years , i just leave it rough when i get out of the shower & dry my hair with two wafts of the bathroom door.

Well, Thursday isn't about Darryl Powell it's abiut Warrington RLFC so I'll be screaming my lungs out to try and get them over the line.

Recriminations (and there should be plenty) can start once we are safe.

Having said that, the first time Mulhearn or Holmes do a traffic warden impression, Matautia makes like a spinning top or our attack grinds to a halt with a "what now?" look amongst the players, don't be suprised to see me scaling the north stand toward the incompetence bunker, Harveys in hand.

Here comes the Toulouse 4 - Pointer,



And they’re only 4 points behind us, so if they win they’ll be level points with us with 4 to play

They will be 2 points behind us with 4 to play.

Sorry if that was a joke and I didn't get it.

I watched the interviews after the Hull kr defeat. Houles and olly ashall bolt sounded like broken men. Houles especially, sounded like a man who had accepted their fate. If we lose to them then Powell should be publicly sacked on the pitch afterwards a la Adam Pearson. The only bad thing about toulouse getting relegated(if they do!)is that I heard a rumour they will rejoin the French league rather than go in the championship. Really hope that isn't the case.

We need to be bombing him out of existence

If we had a kicker of bombs that would be a good plan

Not many!! Widnes away when he got 7 bells knocked out of him, (a bit more than a fat lip IIRC) kind of finished off his time at Wire as he'd lost confidence. I can't remember who it was he swapped with and my mind might be playing tricks but Russell played FB in attack and Wing on the 5th in defence in that game

I remember it well, he got absolutely buried and was shipped out fairly soon after. Having said that, he's still pretty nippy from dummy half so I expect him to steal some easy, cheap meters and get them upfield.

We could do with a few of his scoots now to break up play & get our game flowing.

Even if Toulouse beat us, they won’t win another game after that. Yes we’re absolute dog poop but I’m not sure why you’re all worrying.

As someone else posted on here if Toulouse win against us they are 2 points behind. Toulouse could beat Catalans in the derby, Hull FC are hot and cold and Saints could rest their team. Not likely, but not impossible.

Toulouse wouldn’t beat Catalans and they wouldn’t beat Saints reserve side either. Even if they did somehow come up with a win against Hull, (who battered them 2 weeks ago), and we didn’t win another game, we’d still be ahead of them on points difference.

They’ve already beaten Saints and it was far off a saints reserve side as well and this time they’d be fighting for their SL existence

Re: Russell.

If he’s on the wing surely we kick behind him rather than bomb him. He’s worse at defending that than even Charnley was.

A good tactical ploy but who is going to do the kicking. Our in game kicking has been abysmal.

They've wheeled Benny out now to tell us to get behind the boys. Constant social media messages, club favourites and Powell all telling the fans to get behind the team, get the place bouncing.

Remember when they did that for the first game after Covid vs Hudds.

I'm starting to get worried they're going to be adding pressure to a team that cannot handle it. A baying crowd, "bouncing" cannot hide it's reactions to a dropped ball or a crap kick, it's natural to groan, maybe not in anger but in disappointment. All mistakes that happen normally in a match, but one's that our current bunch get disheartened about, start to self doubt and crumble.

That’s all fine, but who are the pre-match band?